Both Rosalyn Shaye and Paul Xavier are drawn once again into a dangerous mission with their friends in Zagreb during the spring of 1984. This leads them to continue their search for the mysterious Madonnas Cross. Beginning with a flash back to the past when Natasha Sumora was born. Her bloodlines were kept a secret, only with dire consequences. Natasha is released from prison. Spies emerge in a network of secrecy and nowhere appears to be safe. A journey takes the characters to Siberia where they meet Professor Olga Sumora, who has made a scientific breakthrough.
Rosko Krystoffe and Derek Schoemakker are on an ambitious quest to Jupiters moon Callisto with a small crew, which includes Gretchen Tousard and Vanda Shariffe. Their mission is to rescue Eva who is presumed sold into slavery, and to repossess an alien artifact named the Madonna's Cross that is unlawfully held in possession by the Calliston Gabra Shi. As competition increases among the top scientists in OOS and also between the Spirullian Force and SEVs Syncronised Network, Rosko devises a plan to liberate the enslaved people with the aide of his Paragonian Secret Army.
Rosko Krystoffe lives in South Africa in 2084 when a civil war breaks out in the city of Paragonia. The Paragon people are driven away and embark on a journey of survival. Rosko meets the Gabra Shi in a speleothem cave where she reveals the mystery and purpose of his existence. Gretchen Tousard is Roskos potential bride. She is also torn from her loved ones and loses track of them. On her journey fraught with danger she escapes the civil war in Paragonia. When she is compelled to sail to Montenegro where she finds Rosko once more. He discovers Gerald Topovskis evil plan to manipulate the worlds resources through SEV.
Rosalyn Shaye and her fianc, Paul Xavier, become targets of new criminal activities. In Zagreb, Croatia. A band of con artists and international smugglers set in motion a new sequence of adventures along the Dalmatian coast. Everyone is racing to find the lost treasure of St Lancelot. The amazing ingenuity of the crooks, affiliated with Orlando Morettis Exclusive Art Lovers Association, create an intriguing atmosphere in which Rosalyn and her friends are drawn to risk their lives over and again.
Rosalyn Shayes adventures have just begun as she learns to make new friends and conquer her own fears at 21 years of age. She lives on a temporary visa in Croatia. Her boyfriend, Paul Xavier, is a British agent of Croatian descent. The story is set in 1970s. Paul goes missing from Rosalyns life at Christmas time 1976. The story follows both Paul, Rosalyn and their friends to the sunny Dalmatian coast when their lives are turned upside-down by a band of diamond smugglers.
A mere 150 years ago Scottish Gaelic was the third most widely spoken language in Canada, and Irish was spoken by hundreds of thousands of people in the United States. A new awareness of the large North American Gaelic diaspora, long overlooked by historians, folklorists, and literary scholars, has emerged in recent decades. North American Gaels, representing the first tandem exploration of these related migrant ethnic groups, examines the myriad ways Gaelic-speaking immigrants from marginalized societies have negotiated cultural spaces for themselves in their new homeland. In the macaronic verses of a Newfoundland fisherman, the pointed addresses of an Ontario essayist, the compositions of a Montana miner, and lively exchanges in newspapers from Cape Breton to Boston to New York, these groups proclaim their presence in vibrant traditional modes fluently adapted to suit North American climes. Through careful investigations of this diasporic Gaelic narrative and its context, from the mid-eighteenth century to the twenty-first, the book treats such overarching themes as the sociolinguistics of minority languages, connection with one's former home, and the tension between the desire for modernity and the enduring influence of tradition. Staking a claim for Gaelic studies on this continent, North American Gaels shines new light on the ways Irish and Scottish Gaels have left an enduring mark through speech, story, and song.
Includes, beginning Sept. 15, 1954 (and on the 15th of each month, Sept.-May) a special section: School library journal, ISSN 0000-0035, (called Junior libraries, 1954-May 1961). Also issued separately.
Aldo Leopold, father of the "land ethic," once said, "The time has come for science to busy itself with the earth itself. The first step is to reconstruct a sample of what we had to begin with." The concept he expressedâ€"restorationâ€"is defined in this comprehensive new volume that examines the prospects for repairing the damage society has done to the nation's aquatic resources: lakes, rivers and streams, and wetlands. Restoration of Aquatic Ecosystems outlines a national strategy for aquatic restoration, with practical recommendations, and features case studies of aquatic restoration activities around the country. The committee examines: Key concepts and techniques used in restoration. Common factors in successful restoration efforts. Threats to the health of the nation's aquatic ecosystems. Approaches to evaluation before, during, and after a restoration project. The emerging specialties of restoration and landscape ecology.
